A leading human rights lawyer has slammed proposals to introduce a so-called ban on conversion practices in Northern Ireland.
Aidan O’Neill KC, recently named Scotland’s ‘lawyer of the year’, has dubbed the Northern Ireland Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill ‘jellyfish legislation’ – ‘impossible to grasp’ with ‘a sting in the tail’.
There are ‘very strong arguments,’ he says, that the bill is beyond the legislative powers of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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